[PSUBS-MAILIST] K-250 side viewport and dome hatch.

Sun Sep 27 22:28:41 EDT 2020

 You had to bring up family secrets of the early days, eh Alan?  :) :)  As I recall, we lost about a dozen people in protest when we decided to add the word "safe" to our mission statement.
Jon

    On Sunday, September 27, 2020, 09:27:34 PM EDT, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:  

 Thanks David,I can remember ( before your time) a controversial Psub member from Idaho submitting a seal design that was a moulded rubber. He was told by JayJeffries that it was dangerous & could extrude. This resulted in the onlyreal Psub Stoush that I can remember. ( Boring group really) And the said young member left the group! Jon will remember him fondly!Alan

On 28/09/2020, at 2:06 PM, David Colombo via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

Alan, on the VAST sub which has the original kitteridge dome, it has a  .5 inch wide flat rubber seal that appears to also have a seat groove into the hatch ring. The hatch is clamped with (4) internal dogs. The rubber seal protrudes about 3/16".David.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 5:11 PM hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Hi Philipe,You have to machine the dome seat flat anyways, so adding an o-ring groove is a small extra step.Hank 
    On Sunday, September 27, 2020, 4:36:22 PM MDT, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:  

 Hi Philipe,I don't know of any submersibles that don't use o-rings as the hatch sealing method.I believe there is a danger of a flat rubber seal extruding inward under pressure.Alan 

On 28/09/2020, at 10:32 AM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Follow the plans.  The sections you reference are all related to the pressure hull and should not be modified.
Jon

    On Sunday, September 27, 2020, 04:47:54 PM EDT, Philippe Robert via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:  

 Hi all,
I currently make the conning tower. I see on the internet some k-250 with front and side viewport in addition of the acrylics dome. Some of the viewport is close to the gusset and I assume that is not possible to do a 100% weld. Is it acceptable ? Is it ok to drill hole in the viewport to put retaining bolts ?  Second question, on the blueprint, the sealing option for the hatch on the conning tower is o'ring groove. Is it possible to make better sealing like flat rubber strip or something like that ?
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